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Now fully revised and updated, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the latest developments. This definitive text brings together writings on an unparalleled range of key ethical issues, compellingly presented by internationally renowned scholars.

The latest edition of this definitive one-volume collection, now updated to reflect the latest developments in the field
Includes several new additions, including important historical readings and new contemporary material published since the release of the last edition in 2006
Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, neuroethics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, public health, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, genetic screening, and issues facing nurses
Subjects are clearly and captivatingly discussed by globally distinguished bioethicists
A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves.



TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

Part I Abortion 9

Introduction 11

1 Abortion and Health Care Ethics 15
John Finnis

2 Abortion and Infanticide 23
Michael Tooley

3 A Defense of Abortion 38
Judith Jarvis Thomson

4 Why Abortion Is Immoral 49
Don Marquis

Part II Issues in Reproduction 61

Introduction 63

Assisted Reproduction 69

5 Multiple Gestation and Damaged Babies: God's Will or Human Choice? 71
Gregory Pence

6 Assisted Reproduction in Same Sex Couples 74
Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli

7 Rights, Interests, and Possible People 86
Derek Parfit

8 The Ethics of Uterus Transplantation 91
Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz

Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection, and Cloning 103

9 Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? 105
Laura M. Purdy

10 Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy 112
Adrienne Asch

11 Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness 127
Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt

12 Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 136

13 Sex Selection and Preimplantation Diagnosis: A Response to the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 141
Julian Savulescu and Edgar Dahl

14 Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Stem Cells 144
John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner

15 Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to Be Selected as Tissue Donors 152
David King

16 The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans 156
Michael Tooley

Part III Genetic Manipulation 173

Introduction 175

17 Questions about Some Uses of Genetic Engineering 177
Jonathan Glover

18 The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics 189
David B. Resnik

19 Should We Undertake Genetic Research on Intelligence? 199
Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson

20 In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 208
Nick Bostrom

Part IV Life and Death Issues 215

Introduction 217

21 The Sanctity of Life 225
Jonathan Glover

22 Declaration on Euthanasia 235

Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Killing and Letting Die 241

23 The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View 243
Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.

24 Active and Passive Euthanasia 248
James Rachels

25 Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? 252
Winston Nesbitt

26 Why Killing is Not Always Worse - and Sometimes Better - Than Letting Die 257
Helga Kuhse

27 Moral Fictions and Medical Ethics 261
Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock

Severely Disabled Newborns 271

28 When Care Cannot Cure: Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies 273
Neil Campbell

29 The Abnormal Child: Moral Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents 285
R. M. Hare

30 Right to Life of Handicapped 290
Alison Davis

31 Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation 292
Christine Overall

Brain Death 305

32 A Definition of Irreversible Coma 307

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death

33 Are Recent Defences of the Brain Death Concept Adequate? 312
Ari Joffe

34 Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill? 321
Peter Singer

Advance Directives 331

35 Life Past Reason 333
Ronald Dworkin

36 Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy 341
Rebecca Dresser

Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide 351

37 The Note 353
Chris Hill

38 When Selfü]Determination Runs Amok 357
Daniel Callahan

39 When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok 362
John Lachs

40 Trends in Endü]ofü]Life Practices Before and After the Enactment of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010: A Repeated Crossü]Sectional Survey 366
Bregje D. Onwuteakaü]Philipsen, Arianne Brinkmanü]Stoppelenburg, Corine Penning, Gwen J. F. de Jongü]Krul, Johannes J. M. van Delden, and Agnes van der Heide

41 Euthanasia in the Netherlands: What Lessons for Elsewhere? 377
Bernard Lo

Part V Resource Allocation 381

Introduction 383

42 Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? 387
Paul T. Menzel

43 Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation? 390
Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler

44 The Value of Life 397
John Harris

45 Bubbles under the Wallpaper: Healthcare Rationing and Discrimination 406
Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord

Part VI Obtaining Organs 413

Introduction 415

46 Organ Donation and Retrieval: Whose Body Is It Anyway? 417
Eikeü]Henner W. Kluge

47 The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales 421
Janet Radcliffeü]Richards, A. S. Daar, R. D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R. A. Sells, N. Tilney, and for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics

48 Ethical Issues in the Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys 425
Debra Satz

49 The Survival Lottery 437
John Harris

Part VII Experimentation with Human Participants 443

Introduction 445

Human Participants 449

50 Ethics and Clinical Research 451
Henry K. Beecher

51 Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research 459
Benjamin Freedman

52 The Patient and the Public Good 466
Samuel Hellman

53 Scientific Research Is a Moral Duty 471
John Harris

54 Participation in Biomedical Research Is an Imperfect Moral Duty: A Response to John Harris 483
Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple

55 Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries 489
Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe

56 We're Trying to Help Our Sickest People, Not Exploit Them 495
Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musokeü]Mudido

57 Medical Researchers' Ancillary Clinical Care Responsibilities 497
Leah Belsky and Henry S. Richardson

Human Embryos - Stem Cells 503

58 President Discusses Stem Cell Research 505
George W. Bush

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